Yogani - Liberation - The Fruition of Yoga (AYP Enlightenment Series Book 11)

Liberation

The Fruition of Yoga

Yogani

From The AYP Enlightenment Series

Copyright 2012 by Yogani

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AYP Publishing

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ISBN 978-1-938594-00-7 (Paperback)
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In the modern era,

Everyone can sample liberation for a short while.

What we do after that will make all the difference.

Introduction

This concise volume provides a survey of the methods of Yoga as they relate to the rise of the non-dual condition of enlightenment, or Liberation ( Moksha in Sanskrit), and practices that can be utilized during the end stage of the journey. It is about the rise of the witness and the evolution to ripeness and relational self-inquiry for permanent realization of the observer being both beyond and in unity with all objects of perception, accompanied by the natural emergence of an unending flow of divine love in the world.

While this book is about Advaita-Vedanta and Jnana Yoga for end stage realization, it is also about assuring that the prerequisites of Deep Meditation and related yogic methods are not ignored, as so often happens in modern teachings on enlightenment.

Liberation is the cap-stone of the AYP Enlightenment Series , the vedanta of it so to speak, meaning, the end of knowledge. It is also an expansion on the discussion that began in the seventh book of the series: Self-Inquiry . As we have always said, the center of all spiritual progress is found within each human being, and that theme culminates here. Liberation is in your hands.

The AYP Enlightenment Series has been an endeavor to present the most effective methods of spiritual practice in a series of easy-to-read books that anyone can use to gain practical results immediately and over the long term. For centuries, many of these powerful practices have been shrouded in secrecy, mainly in an effort to preserve them. Now we find ourselves in the information age , and able to preserve knowledge for present and future generations like never before. The question remains: How far can we go in effectively transmitting spiritual methods in writing?

Since the beginning in 2003, the writings of AYP have been an experiment to see just how much can be conveyed, with much more detail included on practices than in the spiritual writings of the past. Can books provide us the specific means necessary to tread the path to enlightenment, or do we have to surrender at the feet of a guru to find our salvation? Well, clearly we must surrender to something, even if it is to our own innate potential to live a freer and happier life. If we are able to do that, and maintain regular practice, then books like this one can come alive and instruct us in the ways of human spiritual transformation. If the reader is ready and the book is worthy, amazing things can happen.

While one persons name is given as the author of this book, it is actually a distillation of the efforts of thousands of practitioners over thousands of years. This is one persons attempt to simplify and make practical the spiritual methods that many have demonstrated throughout history. All who have gone before have my deepest gratitude, as do the many I am privileged to be in touch with in the present who continue to practice with dedication and good results.

I hope you will find this book to be a useful resource as you travel along your chosen path.

Practice wisely, and enjoy!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Path from Here to Here

We live in an amazing time, one when access to the tools of enlightenment is becoming increasingly available due to vastly improved worldwide communications. The causes and effects of human spiritual transformation are being revealed by science, and are being experienced first-hand by countless practitioners around the world. The obstacles to clear seeing are many and it is not an easy task to find our way through them all. Nevertheless, the task has been undertaken, and the relentless rise of human consciousness everywhere cannot be denied.

What many are realizing is that spiritual enlightenment, also called liberation (or moksha in Sanskrit), is here and now, in this place and in this moment. This is why, after years or decades of traveling a spiritual path, the ones who have gone the distance may well exclaim, The path leads from here to here!

The logic of this is very simple: The world we see reflected in our mind via the senses is a creation of our own identification with the objects of our perception, beginning with our sense of self, our sense of I as an entity that is real with rights of ownership in this world. But is it real, and does it have rights of ownership?

Think about it. What do you own? Who is there to own anything? The experience of I , the feeling of it, is a conditioned response that we have been living with since early childhood. The only reason it remains is because we have not yet evolved to a sense of self that is beyond the realm of time and space, the realm where we believe we can own things. Yes, custodians we are. Owners? Impossible. If we did own this realm, we would not have to leave it, and we all do. At most, we are borrowing this realm for a short time, and then we are out of here. Of course there are many ways we try to get around our limited stay here, by making a big name, a big fortune, or a big impact on humanity, so that we will be remembered. But what difference will it make to us? None. Zilch. At best we are providing a service of unselfish giving so others who come after us may have an easier time of it here. At worst, we may harm millions and be vilified for the rest of human history. Those are the extremes. Most of us fall somewhere in-between. None of it makes much difference in the long run.

But something matters. We can feel it in our bones. Nature is always evolving toward a more perfect expression, never quite getting there, but never giving up either. That impulse lives in us also, the unceasing flow toward becoming more. It does not only apply to our activities on this earth, but also to revealing our inner nature in this life. Intuitively, we know there is immortality within us, something that transcends all that comes and goes here, and our tendency to get tangled up in it.

There is such a thing as liberation , and that is what wed like to explore in this book, particularly as it relates to the ancient and ever-new field of yoga . When we combine the ancient wisdom with modern ways of applying and disseminating the knowledge, we begin to see the journey of human spiritual transformation in ways that were not even imaginable a few decades ago. In doing so, we will be stepping across imaginary lines of demarcation, shedding centuries of sectarian confusion, including some of it that is still with us today, but fading rapidly in the light of knowledge and direct experience.

Is Instant Enlightenment Possible?

Anything is possible on the spiritual path. However, to regard instant enlightenment, a simple mental realization, as a reality for everyone is simply unrealistic. If it were so, the world would be radically different than it is today.

There is a teaching out there that we can see the truth in the here and now, and that all the other things we may have been doing, or are considering doing for our spiritual betterment have been and are a complete waste of time. We often hear this from teachers who have spent decades in meditation and other spiritual practices, who one day had the Aha that marked their awakening into liberation, and then said, Why did I waste so many years in practices, when I could have woken up way back then? They advise that we should just let go now, and it will happen, just as it did for them (after countless meditation sittings over many years).